White Art

Do you believe non-white students read "great literature" that demeans them in school?

Do non-white students reconcile what they probably perceive at times as a contradiction, a paradox, when they're being taught that some work of unspokenly white art is "great," and yet they know at some level that it's also racist? And worse yet, that the teacher isn't even acknowledging the racism, and can't even seem to see it?

Yes I do. As a black person who attended predominantly white schools my whole life (often times being the only black kid in the class), I can say I've been offended by some books I was forced to read. I don't remember the name but, but in my tenth grade english class we read a book that was filled with the N word. When the book was read in class I was especially annoyed.